Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	4763	Down from 5027
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	64.3	Up from 63.2
Teacher attendance rate	88.6	Down from 92.3
Average teacher salary	$58,901	Up from $56,422
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.4	Down from 99.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	89.3	Up from 85.9
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	89.2	Down from 89.3
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.7	No change
Prime instructional time	82.0	Down from 86.0
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	24.0 to 1	Up from 23.6 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	22.4	Up from 18.9
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	15	Down from 360
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	11	Up from 6
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	18	Up from 6
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	9.0	Up from 4.3
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	6	Down from 81
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	31.8	Up from 31.2
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	181	Down from 280
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	14	Up from 4
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	5	Up from 2
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	4.4	Up from 3.6
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	25	Down from 32
Percent of inexperienced teachers	20.1	Down from 23.1
Number of inexperienced teachers	946	Down from 1124
Percent of out-of-field teachers	5.3	Up from 3.9
Number of out-of-field teachers	252	Up from 191

Inexperienced Teacher- a teacher with less than 4 years of experience.
Inexperienced School Leader- a School Administrator that has not completed their formal evaluation process (Tier 1)
Out of Field Teacher- a teacher teaching a course or courses outside their field of certification when a certification is required for that course.

ESSA regulations require states to post on their report cards information about teachers with emergency or provisional credentials. South Carolina does not award emergency or provisional credentials, thus that metric is not listed.